Title 34, CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE

Sec. 4. IC 22-3-9-6 (Concerning employers for the death of a person covered by worker's compensation). [1998 Recodification Citation: New.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.27.

Sec. 5. IC 22-10-12-11 (Concerning mine operators and employers for death or injury of mine rescuer during rescue attempt). [1998 Recodification Citation: New.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.27.

Sec. 6. IC 37-2-6-10 (Concerning creditors for errors made under the Uniform Consumer Credit code). [1998 Recodification Citation: New.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.27. Amended by P.L.115-2026, SEC.80.

Sec. 7. IC 24-5-8-17 (Concerning sellers under the business opportunity transaction law). [1998 Recodification Citation: New.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.27.

Sec. 8. IC 27-8-8-5 (Concerning the Indiana life and health insurance guaranty association). [1998 Recodification Citation: New.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.27.

Sec. 9. IC 32-33-7-2 (Concerning proprietor or manager of a hotel, apartment hotel, or inn for guest's valuables kept in a safe). [1998 Recodification Citation: New.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.27. Amended by P.L.2-2002, SEC.98.

Sec. 1. (a) In an action commenced in a court of general jurisdiction in Indiana by or against any corporation incorporated under the laws of Indiana, in which one (1) or more of the directors of the corporation is: (1) a necessary or proper party; and (2) a nonresident of Indian…

Sec. 2. (a) This section applies to a person who: (1) is a nonresident of Indiana; and (2) accepts an election or appointment as a director or serves as a director in a corporation organized under the laws of Indiana. (b) By and as a condition of: (1) accepting an election or app…

Sec. 1. (a) This section applies when a change of venue is taken from the county in any civil action pending in any circuit, superior, or probate court of Indiana from any county having two (2) or more adjoining counties. (b) If the parties to the action agree in open court withi…

Sec. 2. (a) This section applies to a county with a population of at least one hundred thousand (100,000) that is adjoined by three (3) or fewer other counties. (b) In addition to listing the adjoining counties, the court shall also list the two (2) nonadjoining counties, the cou…

Sec. 3. (a) If the venue of the action has already been changed from an adjoining county, the name of the adjoining county shall not be included in the written list submitted by the court. (b) If excluding the county from which venue was first changed results in fewer than three …

Sec. 4. Each party may strike off one (1) of the three (3) counties submitted within two (2) days after the list is submitted, and the action shall be sent to the county remaining. If either of the parties refuses or fails to strike off the names of the counties within the time l…

Sec. 5. (a) This section applies in a county having a population of more than four hundred thousand (400,000) and less than seven hundred thousand (700,000). (b) Whenever a change of venue is taken from the county in any civil action pending in any circuit, superior, or probate c…

Sec. 1. In a civil action where: (1) the parties are entitled to a trial by jury; and (2) either party demands a jury trial; the sheriff shall call a jury from the regular panel, except as provided in this chapter. [Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-1-19-1.] As added by P.L.1-…

Sec. 2. If the parties: (1) agree upon the jurors to compose a special jury; and (2) notify the court; the court shall direct the sheriff to impanel a special jury if it can be done without unreasonable delay of the cause. [Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-1-19-2.] As added b…

Sec. 3. When both parties desire it, the court may direct the sheriff to summon eighteen (18) or fewer competent jurors, and the plaintiff first, and then the defendant, shall strike out one (1) juror in turn, until each has struck off six (6) or more jurors. The remaining jurors…

Sec. 1. (a) A deposition taken and filed for the purpose of perpetuating testimony may, at any time before or after the commencement of an action, in anticipation of which the deposition may have been taken, be published by order of the court in the office of the clerk in which t…

Sec. 2. The record of any deposition recorded under the provisions of section 1 of this chapter (or IC 34-1-16-1 before its repeal), and copies of the record, duly certified, may be used as evidence, whenever and wherever the original deposition might be used. [Pre-1998 Recodific…

Sec. 1. (a) This section applies to the following: (1) The printed statute books of the several states and territories of the United States, purporting to be printed under the authority of those states and territories. (2) A copy of any statute or any part of a statute contained …

Sec. 2. Every act of the legislature of any state or territory of the United States, certified by the secretary, and having the seal of the state or territory affixed to the act, is considered authentic and shall receive full faith and credit when offered in evidence in any court…

Sec. 3. The existence and tenor or effect of the laws of any foreign country may be proved as facts by parol evidence. However, if it appears that the law in question is contained in a written statute or code, the court may reject any evidence of the law that is not accompanied b…

Sec. 1. In a case where a complete record is dispensed with, the production of: (1) the papers and entries relating to the case; and (2) all transcripts of the case; certified and attested with the seal of the court as complete copies of all the papers and entries of the cause, s…

Sec. 1. Copies of: (1) all papers filed with; and (2) all records, exhibits, awards, and orders made by; the worker's compensation board, when certified by the secretary of the board to be true and complete copies, are competent evidence in the several courts of record in Indiana…

Sec. 1. All: (1) patents issued by the United States or by the state of Indiana conveying real estate in Indiana; and (2) the records of those patents that have been duly recorded; shall be taken and received as competent evidence in all courts in Indiana. [Pre-1998 Recodificatio…

Sec. 2. All patents described in section 1 of this chapter that have not been recorded may be recorded as other deeds and conveyances are recorded by law. That record shall be competent evidence in all Indiana courts. [Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-3-8-1 part.] As added by…

Sec. 1. (a) This chapter applies to an action brought to recover damages for: (1) personal injuries; (2) wrongful death; or (3) property damage. (b) This chapter does not apply to actions in which there is more than one (1) defendant. [Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-3-2.5-1…

Sec. 2. (a) An advance payment shall not be construed as an admission of liability by any person. (b) Except as provided in section 3 of this chapter, evidence of an advance payment is not admissible during the trial for any purpose by either plaintiff or defendant. [Pre-1998 Rec…

Sec. 3. If it is determined that the plaintiff is entitled to recover in an action described in section 1 of this chapter: (1) the defendant may introduce evidence of any advance payment made; and (2) the court shall reduce the award to the plaintiff to the extent that the award …

Sec. 4. (a) An advance payment made by an insurance company on behalf of an insured does not increase the limits of liability of the insurance company under any existing policy of insurance. (b) The amount of an advance payment made in respect to any claim shall be credited again…

Sec. 0.1. The amendments made to section 4 of this chapter by P.L.252-2001 apply to the estate of an individual who dies after June 30, 2001. As added by P.L.220-2011, SEC.574.

Sec. 1. All persons, whether parties to or interested in the suit, are competent witnesses in a civil action or proceeding, except as otherwise provided. [Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-1-14-4.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.41.

Sec. 10. (a) In all cases in which: (1) executors, administrators, heirs, or devisees are parties; and (2) one (1) of the parties to the suit is incompetent under this chapter to testify against the parties described in subdivision (1); the assignor or grantor of a party making t…

Sec. 11. In all actions by an executor or administrator, on contracts assigned to the decedent, when the assignor is alive and a competent witness in the cause: (1) the executor or administrator; and (2) the defendant or defendants; are competent witnesses as to all matters that …

Sec. 12. Lack of belief in a supreme being or in the Christian religion does not render a witness incompetent. However, lack of religious belief may be shown upon the trial. In all questions affecting the credibility of a witness, the general moral character of the witness may be…

Sec. 13. Any fact that might have been shown to render a witness incompetent may be shown to affect the credibility of the witness. [Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-1-14-14.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.41.

Sec. 2. Except as otherwise provided by statute, persons who are insane at the time they are offered as witnesses are not competent witnesses, whether or not they have been adjudged insane. [Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-1-14-5 part.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.41.

Sec. 3. (a) This section applies in all suits by or against any person adjudged to be a mentally incompetent person or against the mentally incompetent person's guardian: (1) founded upon any contract with, or demand against the protected person; (2) to obtain possession of the r…

decedent Sec. 4. (a) This section applies to suits or proceedings: (1) in which an executor or administrator is a party; (2) involving matters that occurred during the lifetime of the decedent; and (3) where a judgment or allowance may be made or rendered for or against the estat…

Sec. 5. (a) This section applies to suits by or against heirs or devisees founded on a contract with or demand against an ancestor: (1) to obtain title to or possession of property, real or personal, of, or in right of, the ancestor; or (2) to affect property described in subdivi…

Sec. 6. (a) This section applies: (1) when an agent of a decedent testifies on behalf of an executor, administrator, or heirs concerning any transaction the agent had: (A) with a party to the suit, or the party's assignor or grantor; and (B) in the absence of the decedent; or (2)…

Sec. 7. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a person who acted as an agent in the making or continuing of a contract with any person who has died, is not a competent witness, in any suit upon or involving the contract, as to matters occurring before the death of the deceden…

Sec. 8. If the defendant in a case: (1) is charged with unlawfully taking or detaining personal property or having done damage to personal property; and (2) defends the charge in the defendant's pleading by asserting that the defendant is the executor, administrator, guardian, or…

Sec. 9. When the husband or wife is a party, and not a competent witness in his or her own behalf, the other shall also be excluded. [Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-1-14-9 part.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.41.

Sec. 1. (a) This chapter contains a list of references to other privileged communication provisions outside IC 34. (b) Listing in this chapter does not equate to the creation of a privilege, and failure to be listed in this chapter does not negate a privileged communication recog…

Sec. 10. IC 16-41-7-3 (Concerning warning by physician of serious communicable disease). [1998 Recodification Citation: New.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.42. Amended by P.L.112-2020, SEC.66.

Sec. 11. IC 16-41-11-10 (Concerning expert review panels who consult and advise health care workers who have communicable diseases). [1998 Recodification Citation: New.] As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.42.